Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

The beautiful woman was still clear-headed. She looked at Chu Mingkong and asked:

"So you mean to let Ruyu suffer under the effects of the aphrodisiac? Or are you saying that you seem to be thinking of Ruyu's best interests, but in reality you are just indirectly trying to have physical intimacy with Ruyu to satisfy your own lustful desires?"

That really hit the nail on the head. Honestly, Chu Mingkong does have a bit of a flirtatious streak, which is only human nature, especially when faced with a girl who is quite attractive. He's not a saint, but if you really want to take advantage of her, it's not that strong of him.

It's simply outrageous that someone like Young Master Ling could receive the support of Ru Yu's mother.

Since this beautiful woman's cultivation level is so high, she can help Ruyu neutralize the effects of the medicine by spending some time. However, Ruyu will have to endure the torment during this time, and to be honest, it will take quite a while.

Princess Ruyu's subtle and indecent sounds could be heard coming from the next room.

“My relationship with Princess Ruyu is mostly about exchanging information. As long as you don’t force Ruyu to be with Young Master Ling, it’s fine. It has nothing to do with any romantic thoughts. It’s just that I can’t stand it. I can leave now without any problem.”

As soon as Chu Mingkong stepped out of the hall, the door was sealed shut with ice, and the beautiful woman's voice rang out, carrying a hint of command.

"stop."

"What can I do for you, Madam?" Chu Mingkong asked with a polite smile.

"You can't get close to Ruyu, it will cause her trouble, but Ruyu trusts you and shouldn't be averse to your antidote. Leave your antidote here."

Shen Xuejun moved a small bowl to a different position and ordered Chu Mingkong to put the antidote inside.

Chu Mingkong had some issues with this woman. Just because she had wanted to support Ru Yu and Young Master Ling being together, how could Chu Mingkong listen to her now that she was ordering him around like this?

Who the hell are you? How can you be so indifferent to your own daughter's affairs? Let's see just how "heartless" you really are!

"I'm sorry, if you want the antidote, I'll probably have to trouble you, Madam, to get it for me. I'm not in the mood right now, and I can't get out on my own!"

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P.S.: I forgot to mention, the bonus chapters will follow the same old rule. This month's bonus chapters will only start calculating as payment after the recommendation period ends. Let's try our best to write 10,000 words a day during the recommendation period; today's goal has been achieved.

Chapter 192 Vomiting Medicine

After saying such arrogant words, Chu Mingkong showed little remorse for his impulsiveness and stood there staring at the beautiful woman.

At this moment, the elegant and plump woman's unique, cold demeanor seemed less beautiful and more strange to Chu Mingkong. Regardless of whether others perceive a person's decisions as good or bad, the actions themselves should be made under the influence of certain emotions; one should dislike what one dislikes and actively pursue what one likes.

But this woman was very puzzled. That was your daughter!

As they stared at each other, silence descended upon the room. Next door, Princess Ruyu's moans grew clearer, stronger, and more resonant, gradually escaping from the muffled sounds suppressed deep in her throat, uncontrollable and unrestrained.

Chu Mingkong broke the silence, unable to stop thinking about Ru Yu's voice. He looked at the beautiful woman with disgust and sneered:

"Why is Madam silent now? You can be so indifferent to your daughter, any man could help her detoxify, but you refuse to come and get the medicine? Why are you silent now? Besides, given your cultivation level, my spiritual power can't help Ruyu detoxify, but you can, it just takes a little more time."

Chu Mingkong's provocation still failed to stir any emotion in Shen Xuejun. She sat down, her eyes growing colder, and said in a chilling voice:

"For a junior to speak to me like that is punishable according to the rules, but I'll let you off this time because of your status. You just asked me why I didn't speak. I was waiting for you. You asked me to fetch medicine for Ruyu, so why didn't you move? Did you want me to help you loosen your belt?"

Ok?

Chu Mingkong's mind went blank, and he couldn't process what was happening for a moment. He had just seen that the other party was not speaking, and he thought that she was speechless because of his rebuttal and had simply remained silent... So she was waiting for him to unbuckle his belt and take out the "medicinal catalyst" for her?

You really dared to come!

"...Wait, to help Ruyu detoxify, she doesn't need to take this stuff. Madam, you can go and help her regulate her internal energy now."

"That will take a long time, and Ruyu will suffer a lot during that time. You keep saying you care about Ruyu, but are you willing to watch her suffer for so long?"

The woman's words silenced Chu Mingkong. As he pondered how to reply, the beautiful woman flicked her jade-like finger, and spiritual energy, condensed into threads, sliced ​​across Chu Mingkong's waist, neatly cutting off his clothes below the hips.

Most people can do this, but people at different levels will have different results when doing the same thing. This beautiful woman controlled her spiritual power extremely well. Just as the spiritual power threads wrapped around him, they cut his clothes and didn't get any closer to his skin. It was a perfect, clean cut, not too much and not too little.

But what Chu Mingkong was thinking was, "Ru Yu only buttoned a hole in my pants, but you actually cut them off completely..."

"Come stand here."

Shen Xuejun's beautiful, slender hands grabbed Chu Mingkong's medicinal ingredient, and Chu Mingkong was pulled to the small bowl to begin taking the medicine.

Chu Mingkong was speechless. He secretly glanced at Ruyu's mother, but couldn't discern much change in her expression. She didn't treat him like a man either. Her smooth, delicate hands weren't helping a man; they were simply taking medicine from something.

His skills were undoubtedly rusty, but Chu Mingkong's heart was beating a little fast because of this awkward and strange feeling.

He suddenly heard the beautiful woman speak, her voice sounding somewhat lecturing:

“When you were a child, you could still say calmly, ‘Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs,’ which can also be interpreted as heaven and earth not acting on emotion and treating all things equally. Why have you become so emotionally volatile now? Is it because of your injuries, or because of the changes that come with growing up?”

Who is this? Did you see me when I was a child...? Chu Mingkong wondered to himself.

Moreover, his Abyss Injury is currently suppressed by the power of Extreme Yang. Even people with average cultivation levels would find it difficult to detect his injury unless he actively stimulates it.

Chu Mingkong was about to ask her identity, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by the beautiful woman's lecture. She didn't stop fetching the medicine; her calm eyes fixed on the medicinal ingredient, she said:

"Just like the 'antidote' you have hidden here right now, how is it any different from your hair and your blood? You've put too many unnecessary emotions into your body."

"I think it's necessary to distinguish between these things. Some people don't care if their enemy's blood is splattered on them, but others will find it disgusting. Ru Yu probably wouldn't want to use Young Master Ling's stinky trick to detoxify herself, and of course she wouldn't want to drink mine."

"That's just her willfulness, causing her unnecessary suffering. Let her drink it like bitter medicine and get it over with sooner, so I don't have to slowly help her recover. As for Young Master Ling's overstepping of the line, whether he should be deposed or killed is one thing, but as for Ruyu's reckless poisoning, whether she should take the antidote is another matter."

If Ruyu can see through these pointless feelings of love and hate because of this, and abandon the dilapidated cultivation method she is currently practicing with her grandfather, and come with me to cultivate, then it can be considered a blessing in disguise.”

"...If Madam truly takes emotions so lightly, wouldn't everyone be able to gain Madam's support, become close to Ruyu, and even climb to Madam's status?"

“Many people don’t even deserve to appear in front of me. How I view them and what their value is to me is up to me, but whether they deserve to appear in front of me is a matter of principle, and principles have nothing to do with emotions.”

Shen Xuejun suddenly frowned, her thoughts drifting far away.

When people are young, they are unruly, do not know themselves, and have difficulty controlling themselves. However, when Shen Xuejun saw that Chu Mingkong was so young, he could say such things about the equality of all things. She was surprised and supported Xiao Yunhan in showing mercy to Chu Mingkong.

Perhaps it's time to rethink things.

It was because of her relationship with Xiao Yunhan, coupled with her fleeting glimpse of Chu Mingkong's talent back then, that Shen Xuejun felt a certain respect for Chu Mingkong as a junior, treating him as one of her own rather than an outsider.

Taking medicine from Chu Mingkong now is more like taking snacks from a junior to feed one's own hungry child.

But if someone else had just spoken passionately to her, criticizing her actions, Shen Xuejun might have killed someone and then used the knife to obtain the medicine.

In the eyes of many, Wenqing Pavilion is like a neutral sect, whose actions are both benevolent and wicked, and this is the reason why.

After a while, Shen Xuejun frowned, her hand tightening slightly as she squeezed Chu Mingkong, causing him pain. Then she heard the voluptuous woman rebuke her:

"Why haven't you handed over the medicine yet? You said you cared so much about Ruyu before, but this is your attitude now?"

"...Using your hands is inherently slow."

"Then how should we do it?"

Chu Mingkong: "...Uh."

......

Before Chu Mingkong could even ask who she was, she waved him away.

Shen Xuejun took the small bowl, placed it to her rosy lips, and spat out the sticky antidote with her tongue.

The beautiful woman, who had wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and had a calm expression, took a small bowl and went to Ruyu's room.

"Drink it, the antidote."

Chapter 193 Careless Eating ( )

Shen Xuejun came to her daughter and cast a calming spell on her, but the reason Ruyu was in this state was because she had accidentally ingested the aphrodisiac, not because her mind was not at peace.

The effects of calming the mind are limited.

Princess Ruyu took the small bowl handed to her by her mother, stirred the white paste inside with a spoon, and noticed that the medicine looked rather strange.

"What kind of medicine is this? It looks...so sticky."

It was indeed so thick it stuck in her throat... Shen Xuejun thought to herself.

"Just drink it. Once you take it, you won't be affected by the aphrodisiac you accidentally ingested."

Princess Ruyu was very picky about food. She preferred smooth and slippery foods like boiled eggs and refused to eat anything dry or sticky. She even disliked anything with sweet and sour sauce.

Holding the spoon to her lips, she couldn't bring herself to eat it. Now that her mother was right in front of her, Ruyu felt reassured and less anxious about her discomfort. She said coquettishly:

"Mother, could you please put this in my mouth and make it a little thinner? I can't swallow this antidote!"

Shen Xuejun looked at Ruyu helplessly. The beautiful woman took the antidote again, and in order to prevent Ruyu from causing any more trouble, she directly fed the antidote into her mouth.

Ru Yu glared, trying to use her tongue to block, but after a struggle, she ultimately lost due to her superior cultivation level and had to take the antidote.

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After being kicked out of the mansion, Chu Mingkong returned to Qingxin Mansion, found a quiet and secluded corner to squat down, and fell into deep thought.

"Have I ever met this beautiful woman with big breasts and wide hips? Definitely not. There's no way I could fail to recognize a woman like her. Even if I couldn't recognize her face, I could never forget that plump butt!"

Then he could only think about when he said the phrase "Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs." Chu Mingkong remembered that it was mentioned by chance when he was studying with Yunhan. There was a similar sentence in the book.

On the surface, it seemed to be saying that Heaven was heartless, but Chu Mingkong cleverly recalled the interpretation in his previous life's work, the *Tao Te Ching*, and went against the grain, giving the explanation that "this is not criticizing Heaven for being heartless, but rather saying that Heaven and Earth are fair and all things are equal." However, he had said this in a private school, without that woman present, so how could she have heard it?

Thinking about this, he couldn't help but mutter to himself that the things he had learned were really quite diverse.

In his past life, when he was still a student, he was quite a gentleman, the kind of gentleman who pursued virtuous ladies. At that time, he was quite innocent and unexpectedly fell in love with a girl who was the class representative for Chinese. They became boyfriend and girlfriend, and that girl liked to give him pointers on his studies.

Chu Mingkong thought to himself, "I must read more literature, especially books related to the Chinese language subject, so that I can have more in common with my girlfriend." But they broke up, and his girlfriend seamlessly took over as the math class representative for the next class. Chu Mingkong's young heart was deeply hurt, and he began to reflect on why. Later, he understood the reason.

Children of that age all have a competitive spirit, both boys and girls. His girlfriend initially became his girlfriend because he had poor grades but was good-looking, and she could get a sense of superiority as a "top student" from him!

Later, he outperformed her in Chinese language studies, and his sense of satisfaction vanished, so he ran away...

The more outstanding you are, the further apart you will be from the person you like. But is it wrong to make yourself outstanding?

Chu Mingkong was in a slump for a while when his young Chinese teacher, a young woman, came out to care about his problems and encouraged him to cheer up, study hard, and continue to become excellent.

The more outstanding he became, the happier and more he was liked by his elders. Even after he surpassed his teacher's level through self-study, the young female teacher continued to encourage him to strive for excellence, showing no sign of distancing herself from him. His dedication to his teacher, and his efforts to become outstanding, brought her joy—a feeling Chu Mingkong had never experienced from his peers!

Although he learned many poems and lyrics intentionally to please his teacher and his learning was not thorough, showing a bit of utilitarianism, his overall academic level improved significantly.

From that moment on, Chu Mingkong understood a principle—

A beautiful and graceful lady is the object of a gentleman's affections. (×)

A graceful and mature woman is the object of a gentleman's affections. (√)

Only those who support you in becoming excellent are worth getting close to, and these people are largely your elders.